[Haskell-cafe] How to install GD library on Mac OSX?

[Judah Jacobson]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Colin Adams
<colinpauladams at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/22 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu>:
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>> On Sep 22, 2009, at 13:44 , Colin Adams wrote:
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>>> It needs some missing C libraries - gd, png, jpeg, fontconfig and
>>> freetype.
>>> Does anyone know what to do to install these on OSX?
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>>
>> Customarily, Fink or MacPorts.
>>
>> Several of those *are* installed on OSX by default (at least Leopard and
>> up); if they're not being found, make sure you have installed the latest
>> XCode and Apple's X11 (the latter should only matter for Tiger and earlier).
>>  You may also want the latest X11 from http://xquartz.macosforge.org.
>
> Well I tried using macports to install GD2. That was hard work (it
> doesn't resolve dependencies for you). But it makes no difference.
> Cabal install gd still fails saying gd.h is missing, and the libraries
> gd, png, jpeg, fonconfig and freetype, as before.

You probably want to use (if you haven't tried it already):

cabal install gd --extra-include-dirs=/opt/local/include
--extra-lib-dirs=/opt/local/lib

Best,
-Judah